Teleost fish, which roughly make up half of the extant vertebrate species, exhibit an amazing
level of biodiversity affecting their morphology, ecology and behaviour as well as many other …

The ray-finned fishes ('fishes') vary widely in genome size, morphology and adaptations.
Teleosts, which comprise∼ 23,600 species, constitute> 99% of living fishes. The radiation of …

A major challenge in understanding vertebrate embryogenesis is the lack of topographical
transcriptomic information that can help correlate microenvironmental cues within the …

Abstract With about 24,000 extant species, teleosts are the largest group of vertebrates.
They constitute more than 99% of the ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) that diverged from the …

An important objective for inferring the evolutionary history of gene families is the
determination of orthologies and paralogies. Lineage-specific paralog loss following whole …

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a motoneuron disease caused by reduced levels of
survival motoneuron (SMN) protein. Previous studies have assigned SMN to uridine-rich …

The heparin-binding growth factor midkine (MK) comprises a family with
pleiotrophin/heparin-binding growth-associated molecule. The biological phenomena in …

Multiple rounds of whole-genome duplications (WGDs) punctuated the evolution of rayfin
fish, a species-rich group comprising about half of all vertebrates. Rayfin fish, along with …

Midkine (MK) is a heparin‐binding growth factor or cytokine and forms a small protein family,
the other member of which is pleiotrophin. MK enhances survival, migration, cytokine …

The Hox gene complement of zebrafish, medaka, and fugu differs from that of other
gnathostome vertebrates. These fishes have seven to eight Hox clusters compared to the …